Abstract

Production from unconventional resources, increases in upstream development costs and sluggish demand growth have significantly impacted the global natural gas market in the recent past; and will likely continue to do so during the next decade. Taking these developments into account, we provide a projection of global natural gas supply until 2030 applying the MAGELAN world gas model by the Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (EWI). Apart from presenting the results of this simulation, the focus of this paper is thereby on the effects of recent supply, midstream and demand side trends on future gas supply compared to earlier studies and projections. While lower demand growth generally leads to relatively less international gas trade, pipeline exports are affected more strongly than trade in liquefied natural gas. In terms of gas output, this volume effect is found to mainly affect high cost gas producers at the upper end of the supply curve. Exports of suppliers with lower production costs and abundant reserves actually benefit.

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